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Series: Living With Viola Hardcover Rosena Fung 9781773215488 $24.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 9 - 12 Nov 16, 2021

Heartbreakingly honest and quietly funny, this graphic novel from a debut creator is a refreshingly real exploration of mental health, cultural differences, and the trials of middle school. Livy is already having trouble fitting in as the new girl at school—and then there’s Viola. Viola is Livy’s anxiety brought to life, a shadowy twin that only Livy can see or hear. Livy tries to push back against Viola’s relentless judgment, but nothing seems to work until she strikes up new friendships at school. Livy hopes that Viola’s days are numbered. Bu... + Read More
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Series: Living With Viola Paperback Rosena Fung 9781773215495 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 9 - 12 Nov 16, 2021

Heartbreakingly honest and quietly funny, this graphic novel from a debut creator is a refreshingly real exploration of mental health, cultural differences, and the trials of middle school. Livy is already having trouble fitting in as the new girl at school—and then there’s Viola. Viola is Livy’s anxiety brought to life, a shadowy twin that only Livy can see or hear. Livy tries to push back against Viola’s relentless judgment, but nothing seems to work until she strikes up new friendships at school. Livy hopes that Viola’s days are numbered. Bu... + Read More
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Series: Multiculturalism Paperback Cecil Foster 9781771964418 $24.95 HISTORY Feb 01, 2022

Transnationalist Cecil Foster explores the origins, legacy, and potential of Canadian multicultural policy. From the beginning of colonial settlement in the Americas, multiculturalism has symbolized a deeply held yearning by all humanity for freedom. It was at the heart of the Civil War and Canadian Confederation in 1867. But until the 1970s, this yearning for a socially just society was consistently suppressed. Peoples of colour were denied citizenship in the White Man’s Country, the highest achievement of the American Dream and a Manifes... + Read More
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Series: A Dream of a Woman Paperback Casey Plett 9781551528564 $21.95 FICTION Sep 12, 2021

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women. Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award. Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and N... + Read More
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Series: What Was Said to Me The Life of Sti'tum'atul'wut, a Cowichan Woman Paperback Ruby Peter 9780772679383 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 18, 2021

A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. Life histories are a form of contemporary social history and convey important messages about identity, cosmology, social behaviour and one’s place in the world. This first-person oral history—the first of its kind ever published by the Royal BC Museum—documents a period of profound social change through the lens of Sti’tum’atul’wut—also known as Mrs. Ruby Peter—a Cowichan elder who made it her life’s work to ... + Read More
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Series: Green Glass Ghosts Paperback Rae Spoon 9781551528380 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Interest age, years from 14 May 04, 2021

From writer and musician Rae Spoon: a rollicking yet introspective young adult adventure about screwing up, finding yourself, and forging a new life on your own. At age nineteen in the year 2000, the queer narrator of Green Glass Ghosts steps off a bus on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, a city where the faceless condo towers of the wealthy loom over the streets to of the east side where folks are just trying to get by, against the deceptively beautiful backdrop of snow-capped mountains and sparkling ocean. Armed with only their guitar... + Read More
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Series: The Forest of Stolen Girls Hardcover June Hur 9781250229588 $25.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Interest age, years from 13 - 18 Apr 20, 2021

Suspenseful and richly atmospheric, June Hur'sThe Forest of Stolen Girlsis a haunting historical mystery sure to keep readers guessing until the last page.1426, Joseon (Korea).Hwani's family has never been the same since she and her younger sister went missing and were later found unconscious in the forest near a gruesome crime scene. Years later, Detective Min—Hwani's father—learns that thirteen girls have recently disappeared from the same forest that nearly stole his daughters. He travels to their hometown on the island of Jeju to investigat... + Read More
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Series: The Doll Hardcover Nhung N. Tran-Davies 9781772601657 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 5 - 9 Apr 20, 2021

A young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little girl is grown up and she has the chance to welcome a group of refugees who are newly arrived in her adopted country. To the youngest of them, a little girl, she gives a doll, knowing it will help make her feel welcome. Inspired by real events.
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Series: How to Fail as a Popstar Paperback Vivek Shraya 9781551528427 $18.95 DRAMA Feb 18, 2021

The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation. Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, and poetry and children's books explore the beauty and the power of personal and cultural transformation. How to Fail as a Popstar is Vivek's debut theatrical work, a one-person show that chronicles her journey from singing in shopping malls to "not quite" pop music superstardom with beguiling humor and insight. A reflection on the power of ... + Read More
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Series: We All Go Back to the Land The Who, Why, and How of Land Acknowledgements Paperback Suzanne Keeptwo 9781550598674 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 03, 2021

Since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Report in 2015, Land or Territorial Acknowledgments have been sweeping the nation. Academic conferences, government press conferences, cultural events, and even hockey games now often begin with an acknowledgment of the Original Peoples of the lands they are situated upon. Initially, Land Acknowledgments may have made an impact as most Canadians didn’t know which Indigenous Land base their suburb or city or town was built upon, but most acknowledgements now have a standardized, token feel ... + Read More
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Series: Field Notes On Property Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition Paperback Rinaldo Walcott 9781771964074 $14.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 02, 2021

From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd’s death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And what does property have to do with it? In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott explores ... + Read More